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Show DOGS AND MONKEYS SUFFOCATED AT FIRE Special Cable to The Tribune. TON'lX)N, April '.'n.---Fourteen trained monkeys and doc were suffocated at a tire In Hackford road. North Brixton, In a large building of two floor, which was used bh a theatrical scenery store, stable and menagerie The upper part of the building waa a.lso used as a tralnlntt ochool for performing per-forming docs and monkeys, and there were in the building at that time twelve very fine specimens of monkeys and I wo dogs a splendid boar hound and a terrier ter-rier belonnlns to Mr. Orals and Mr. Rostock, Before help could be rendered cither by firemen or civilians all these, animals ani-mals were suffocated. They were found by th firemen stretched otit as If thy bad died unite peacefully. Bfcr their sldee were the iIukjv miniature hurdles, etc , With which they are. trained The j firemen extinguished the fire with a hydrant and a Steamer and prevented the Haines spreading o an adjoining cage, i in which wars forty monkeys, It was supposed that the Ore was caused by the overheating of the warm-bag warm-bag apparatus |